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** V&A Reveals Plans For Photography Centre
The catalyst for the project was the controversial transfer, announced in
early 2016, of more than 270,000 photographs from the National Media Museum
in Bradford to the V&A’s own 500,000-stong collection.
** Artist Realizes Only Appropriate Use Of Trump Tweets Is Plant Food
President Donald Trump’s Tweets might be polluting the natural environment
that is your mind, but they’re finding greater purpose somewhere:
specifically, in a subterranean lavender field in New York City.
** How much branding can a dead man take? It's a total disgrace
At some point in this fairly sober-suited enterprise, the city burghers
wrested Mondrian from the innocent hands of the curators and the
museologists and decided to turn him into a city brand: Brand Mondrian.
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** Will A Hard Brexit Damage UK Museums?
The outgoing director of the Tate, the director of the British Museum, and
the new director of the V&A are all concerned that these institutions will
find it harder to retain and recruit expert staff from across Europe,
potentially damaging their world-class status.
** British Museum hosts X-rated hunt to find its naughtiest treasures
Promising an exploration of the museum’s “naughty and amorous tales”, a
specially-designed treasure hunt will see teams of visitors romp through the
galleries, set “playful” tasks to take photographs in front of key exhibits.
** Tropical Birds Have More Genetic Diversity than Temperate Species
The pattern, known as the latitudinal biodiversity gradient, is true not
just for birds but across many groups of plants and animals, including
mammals, insects, amphibians, and fish.
** Monet's London views
So taken was the founder of impressionism with the city’s weather that he
painted its bridges, parliament and river shrouded in mist, works which will
be displayed next year as part of the first major UK Monet exhibition in
almost two decades.
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** Bringing an egg-shaped art museum to L.A. from Guatemala
In Guatemala City, there is a contemporary art museum housed in a small
structure in the shape of an egg — a space that, on a good day, can
accommodate a total of four people.
** Museum Visitors And Employees, Are Mostly White And This Museum Is
Trying To Change That
A driving hope is that fostering openness and collaboration will ensure the
nearly 150-year-old institution's relevancy and survival in a century
defined by rapidly shifting attitudes and demographics.
** Paintings Forgotten In Upper Manhattan Are Huge Hits In Madrid
The treasures of the Hispanic Society of America – works by Goya, Velázquez
and El Greco, among other masters – are not a popular tourist draw at the
group’s Beaux-Arts museum in Washington Heights.
** Earliest known Homo sapiens just got older
New fossil finds from the Jebel Irhoud archaeological site in Morocco have
pushed back the origins of our species by 100,000 years, to at least 300,000
years ago.
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** London museums pledge to stay ‘safe, open and welcoming to all’ after
terror attack
We will continue with our programmes as planned and demonstrate the cultural
sector's spirit, strength and ability to unite people of all backgrounds.
** Hokusai in Ultra HD: Great Wave, big screen
We argue in our film that Hokusai was the father of the manga comics and
anime films that dominate Japanese popular culture.
** Art Gallery of NSW Grand Courts transformed
Now, after decades in storage, over 80 beautifully restored works are being
presented for six months in the Gallery’s Grand Courts in a crimson-walled
Victorian setting complete with sash curtains, palms and period-style
seating.
** The Mummies’ Medical Secrets? They’re Perfectly Preserved
Since they were recovered about five years ago, scientists have investigated
their secrets, seeking insights into the lives of people in the 17th, 18th
and 19th centuries and the diseases they suffered.
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** Top 20 museums in the world
Beijing's National Museum of China has claimed the top spot in the world's
most visited museums, with the National Air and Space Museum in second
place.
** Britain’s strangest museum features a mummified ‘mermaid’
Owner Viktor Wynd has spent his life travelling the world curating his odd
collection of artefacts, which also includes ancient Chinese sex toys and
what he claims is the skull of a cyclops.
** Museum to raise Revolutionary War gunboat from lake bottom
More than two decades after it was discovered at the bottom of Lake
Champlain, a Revolutionary War gunboat will be raised, preserved and
displayed for the public.
** Museum honouring daredevil Evel Knievel opens in Kansas
A new Kansas museum is giving enthusiasts of late motorcycle daredevil Evel
Knievel a jump on appreciating his death-defying, bone-breaking exploits.
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** From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: visit the Museum of Failure
Remember back when we were all listening to our Zunes, drinking a Crystal
Pepsi munching a McDonald’s Arch Deluxe and playing a series of deeply
inadequate games on the Apple Pippin?
** Slave Wrecks Project
National Park Service Archaeologists Continue International Partnership in
Slave Wrecks Project
** You Are Here: Mapping the Future
The Small Museum Association is planning its 34th annual conference, which
will be held in College Park, Maryland
** Partnerships in Practise
South Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries 2017 Conference & AGM
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - The angels do in fact hear your prayers. In fact, they record them
and play them back for fun at their laughter-filled angel parties.
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